Successful hacks on these will net the able hacker $15,000 in cash and the device itself, as well as monetary bonuses for further ZDI submissions in 2011.

It is important to note that - contrary to several reports out there - the CR-48 laptop is merely a prize, and the actual hack target in Google's part of the contest will be the Chrome browser on a laptop running either Windows 7 or Mac OS X.

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